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mr-dalliard-ive-gone-peculiar:
Peter Cook as E.L. Wisty in “Secret Policeman’s Ball: Mermaid Frolics” (1977)
Beyond The Fringe cast.
Director Stanley Donen, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook and Raquel Welch during filming of Bedazzled
The Bed Sitting Room - Richard Lester - 1969
Dudley Moore, Peter Cook
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These two pictures are stills from the video linked in the “source”, which is a must-watch! It’s a sketch from Not Only… But Also that to my knowledge was not included in the “Best Of What’s Left Of” collection. What’s more, apart from Pete and Dud, it features another Pete, one who goes by the surname Sellers.
His appearances on Can We Talk were the most respectable I think I’ve ever seen Peter Cook look.
- Morris: In your address to the Royal Society tomorrow, you intend to reveal the fossilised remains of the infant Christ. How do you feel that will go down?
- Sir Arthur: Well, it is a remarkable discovery. A group of us were up in The Promised Land - as I believe it's called - and we were just rooting around for some sticks to start a fire with, and, by some accident, this tiny little form had been preserved perfectly. So I picked it up, put it in my knapsack, brought it home and had it scientifically examined at my institute... It's Christ at the age of about nine months -just beginning to walk. Well, more crawling than walking... crawling across the desert in search of, um, followers, really. And then, of course, he died.
- Morris: So, what are the implications, then? Christ was fossilised when he was that small...
- Sir Arthur: He was practicing resurrection. Because, if you're going to resurrect yourself in front of thousands of people, and found a religion on it, you don't want to make a cock-up, do you? So, from a very early age, he was dropping dead and resurrecting himself. There are probably thousands of bodies of Jesus, and this is just the youngest one.
- Morris: A series of larvae.
- Sir Arthur: Almost. Yes. Pupae. In fact, he never really got it right at the end. It's not as if he was pronounced dead on the cross, and then flew up and flapped his wings and said, 'Hello, boys!' He chose a rather complicated way... had to be put in a cave, with a boulder put in front of it... Paul Daniels could do that. So he never really got the hang of it.
